June 21st, 2017
Some decked in black jerseys, others in green, more than a dozen women skated on the Ralph Engelstad Arena of the University of North Dakota. Clutching sticks and chasing a puck on May 29, they practiced for the next hockey season.
Focused on the game, little did the student athletes know that the next season would never come.
“We were on the ice and some of our seniors started to filter into the rink, which was not uncommon for them to be around,” said Head Coach Brian Idalski.…
June 21st, 2017
Hawley man arrested in mobile meth lab in Fargo
FARGO - Fargo Police “broke bad” early Monday morning after discovering a mobile meth lab along the 1800 block of South University.
The Fargo Police Department and the Cass County Drug Task Force found a man passed out behind the wheel of a Chrysler van, which was being used for manufacturing methamphetamine, police reports stated.
Paul Robertson, of Hawley, Minnesota, was awakened by police and agreed to field sobriety tests. A Police…
June 16th, 2017
By C.S. Hagen
DETROIT LAKES - The Detroit Lakes Shakespeare in the Park volunteer group was targeted this week with hateful criticism shortly after New York City began performing its contemporary version of “Julius Caesar.”
In a week filled with partisan violence, which left five injured and the shooter killed during a Republican baseball practice at Simpson Field, Alexandria, Virginia, the online targeting left organizers of the 2017 Shakespearean comedy, “Much Ado…
June 14th, 2017
Fargo Police K9 officer arrested in Moorhead
Early Tuesday morning, Fargo Police K9 Officer Jeremiah Wayne Ferris was arrested on domestic assault charges, according to Fargo Police Chief David Todd.
“I cannot comment on any specifics of the case,” Todd said. “The community trusts its police department to hold itself to a high standard in protecting and serving our citizens. I apologize to our community for this incident and feel like we have let you down. Please trust me when I…
June 14th, 2017
One woman’s journey from war-torn South Sudan and back again -- all to fulfill her dream of setting up a library
FARGO - Twenty-two years after Amal Dei escaped South Sudan’s civil wars, she returned loaded with donated backpacks, children’s books, T-shirts, and pencils. She knew what she wanted; as a child she never had the opportunity to learn to read.
She returned to the Gambela Region, across the Nile River in Ethiopia where hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese fled decades…
June 14th, 2017
A one-day old infant lies in her mother’s arms at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at St. Mary’s Children’s hospital in Duluth, Minn. The mother, still recovering from an emergency C-section, feeds the child a bottle.
However, the infant is not drinking her mother’s breast milk from the bottle. Nor is she drinking formula. The infant is drinking the breast milk of a stranger.
Jaclyn Haak, a lactation consultant at Sanford Health, said in her experience, donated breast milk…
June 8th, 2017
By C.S. Hagen
CANNON BALL - Speaking from a nondescript hotel room, a former DAPL security employee revealed secret agendas, illegal activities, and widespread drug use among private security employees hired by Energy Transfer Partners to protect the company’s interests along to the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.
Describing an agenda that included setting company vehicles on fire, stealing equipment, and intentionally riling up protesters, Kourtni Dockter, 22, of Bismarck,…
June 7th, 2017
BISMARCK - North Dakota will not be joining the U.S. Climate Alliance, even though the state’s neighbor, Minnesota, joined on Monday.
So far, the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Minnesota, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, have joined the growing movement to stand by the United State’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord signed under President Obama’s Administration.
"The governor does not plan to join the…
June 6th, 2017
By C.S. Hagen
cshagen@hpr1.com
CANNON BALL - As at Wounded Knee in 1973, the Federal Bureau of Investigation used informants to infiltrate the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline camps, according to government emails leaked to media outlet The Intercept.
The claim was widely believed true by activists in the Standing Rock camps against the Dakota Access Pipeline, but was never proven until now. Law enforcement from five different states, the North Dakota National Guard, the National Sheriff’s…
June 5th, 2017
Local pastor claims racism and church infighting behind her sudden dismissal
UPDATE: Protesters picket church Wednesday evening - at end of story
FARGO - For years, Pastor Grace Murray opened the doors of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ to New Americans and the LGBT community, and then she was fired.
Despite a massive banner hanging outside the 90-year-old structure at 901 Broadway, declaring “We leave judging to God,” Murray and church members said the church council…